Nearing the end of the season

 Rog and I decided to check out the beach on horseback in Mazatlan after some heavy duty bartering with vendors where we scored some great "Cowboy" trinkets.  The ride was really a lot of fun as our new friends John and Carol snapped a few pictures of us on Giddy up and Slowpoke.





Di's Dream in the travel lift ready to splash after
a new epoxy barrier coat and then three coats of
Comex three bottom paint which seems to hold up the best in these warmer waters.  The folks at the yard, Total Yacht Works did a beautiful job and we took the opportunity to have Rafa the Yanmar mechanic clean the fuel bowls and change all the
filters.  Now we are good to go for another when we return next year.

During the week out of the water we stayed in a suite at El Cid.  The grounds and colors were in full bloom.  Each day consisted of a dingy ride over to the yard to check on the progress as the boat was being prepped.  We did replace a thru hull fitting but everything else was deemed to be
ship shape.  After the morning check out we spent the day at the pool to take advantage of the four
o'clock happy hour that seemed to always call out to us.

Roger wanted to know when I had found time to open my own pharmacy!  I told him that I had always wanted to follow in his retail drug career.  But work is a four letter word and is really not that appealing to me.

                                                                                     

                                                                          We left Mazatlan Saturday for Puerto Vallarta and as always the rods are out ready to fish!                     Lots of action with at least six skipjack tuna and one little Dorado that had to quickly be return to fatten up a  bit for another time.

Fabulous 12 knot winds but then it all went calm.

After a very smooth evening and night the dolphins joined us by the dozens frolicking and showing us the way home to Paradise Village.

They are incredibly fast, nimble and a joy to watch. They must love the news bottom paint!

                                                                                                                                                                         Our last sunset of the season on the water!  The ocean is still and our voyage is a pleasure on our homeward bound leg.

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Morning comes early and the SSB net starts at 7:30 am so check in is always a priority. The
Sonrisa Net gets a fond farewell from Di's Dream.
This year has been again new friends and new
locations that we will long remember and treasure.

It is hard to describe adequately the beauty and
vast nature that we have been so blessed to be
a part of each and every day.

The admiral looking for wind and it is nowhere to be found. Now it is time to start squaring the boat away
so we are ready for our arrival in Banderas Bay.

The seas are still calm and the boat speed is exceptional in such flat waters. Only 26 hours from Mazatlan
to Puerto Vallarta.

We arrived back in the channel at 2pm, wrong, we changed time zones once again and lost another hour.  Now it is 3pm in Puerto Vallarta and the sun does not set until 8:45 in the evening. It has been a fabulous crossing with seven hours of enough breeze to sail that was followed by very flat seas and no wind.  The engine is running strong

Rog ties up the boat good and tight.  There is still a great deal of work to be done before we drive home but on this Sunday afternoon we decide it can wait until mañana.